heritor
Example Sentences
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An old heritor once said to me that the only thing that really roused the devil in a Scotsman's heart was trespassing on his ecclesiastical allotment.'
From Victory out of Ruin by Norman Maclean
There seemed to be no direct responsibility on the part of any heritor for its upkeep, and what seemed everybody's business became nobody's.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
A new call in 1769 was signed neither by heritor, elder, or head of family.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
So you see, madam, this gentleman is the true and sole heritor of all the land that your father possesses, with all the rents thereof for the last twenty years, and upwards.
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The chief heritor of the parish is Captain W. H. Drummond Moray of Abercairny, whose family, though old proprietors, seem never to have lived in the parish.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
